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J. M. OKELLY.

AUTOMATIC VENDING APPARATUS..

Patentedgan. 15, 1889.

No. 396,228. Fi

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UNITED STATES u PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MORRIS OIKELLY, OF NEIY YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ELEVEN- TlYENTIETIIS TO GEORGE l). BAYAUD, OE SAME PLACE.

AUTOMATIC VEN DING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Lettersl Patent No. 396,228, dated January 15, 1889. Application filed July 19, 1888. Serial No. 280,419. (No model.)

T0 all whom it' may concer/L.-

Be itknown that I, JAMES Mouais OKELLY, a subject of the Queen oi' Great Britain, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Vending Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of an apparatus designed to operate automatically, so that by dropping a coin of a certain weight or size into the machine the article required is delivered, after which the mechanism is ready for repeating the operation, as hereinafter described 'and claimed. This result is accomplished by means fully described in the following' specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a sectional view on the line l l, Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation ot' the interior with parts broken away, the casing being in section.

A suitable case, l, incloses and affords a support for a frame-work, 2, upon which the dii-ferent parts of the apparatus are secured or mounted. Directly beneath an elongated opening or slot, 2l, preferably located in the center of the top of the case l, is secured a tube, 4, rectangular in cross-sectionfat the lower end of which and in line with its center is an open wheel, mounted on the shaft which latter has bearings in frame 2. .letween the flanges of said wheel 5 are located the weight 7 and pins S in the positions shown in the drawings. Now it will be seen that by dropping the required coin into the slot 3 it passes through the tube 4: and falls between the ianges of wheel 5, striking obliquely on the weight 7, and from thence across the center of the wheel against one of the pins S, when, by its preponderance of weight, it will cause the said wheel 5 to revolve until the pin S comes in contact with iixed stop 9 upon the ease l.. The coin then escapes and .falls from the wheel into the receptacle in the bottom of case l. The weight? holds wheel 5 in this position until it is tilted back by the entrance of another coin. This wheel I shall hereinafter term a tilting coin-receptacle.

A shaft, l0, also mounted on frame 2, carries at each end tinted disks ll, which constitute A the merchandise-ejector, the depressions being of a size to allow the article-such as cigars or cigarettes-to rest therein. An escapelnent, l2, on shaft (i prevents the turning of the disks l1 (and consequently the discharging of the article) by engaging with one of a number of stops, 1S, on the shaft 10, which are so arranged that by the partial rotation of the wheel 5 in either direction one of the stops, 13, is allowed to escape, while the escapement l2 moves into'position to engage the next stop on the shaft l1 O and so to prevent more than one article being discharged or delivered for each coin deposited.

Some trouble has been experienced in. this class oi' machines from the bridging or janiming oi the articles to be sold, thereby preventing their discharge or delivery into the vertical chute l2 formed bythe casi ng l and the inner plate, S. To obviate this I use a device, as shown in the drawings. At one end oi' the lever ll-, fulerumcd at l5, I mount a small roller, 1U, which proiects into the money-tube li, so that by inserting the coin into the tube -LL the roller l() is forced out, causing a second roller, '17, at the other end of the lever ift to move in the cam-slot iS, formed iu a wing, '19, set at right angles at whatinaybeterineda shakcw-or agtator, 20, pi voted at 2l, and upon the oscillation ot' said lever the agitator is rocked on the pivot 2l and its inner portion thereby lowered and raised. On the said shaker or agitator 20, which projectsinto the feed-cln'nnber22, most of the weight of the articles rests, and upon its being lowered, as stated, the articles are prevented from jamming and bridging, and the increased weight upon the projection of the liuted disks 1lv insures their movement when released by the escapenlent l2, thus allowing the article to drop into the chute 23, where it is accessible to the purchaser.

A spiral spring, 24, serves to bring the lever 14. back into its normal position and again raises the shaker or agitator and relieves the tinted disks Yfrom the weight of a portion of the articles.

Having thus described my invention,the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In an automatic vendingl apparatus, the

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combination, with the casing having a coinslot, of a tilting coin-receptacle, an escapement connected therewith, a merchandisechute, and a mereliandise-ejecting device arranged at the lower cnd of said chute and engaged by said escapemcnt, substantially as set forth.

2. In an automatic vending apparatus, the combination of a coin-receptacle, an escapement attached to and operated by said receptacle, a chute for containing the merchandise, a shaft provided with tinted disks arranged in said chute, and stops on said shaft adapted to be engaged by the said escapement, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

The combination, with the shaft (i and the coin-feeding tube, of a tilting coin-receptacle mounted on said shaft, an escapenient, 12, on said shaft, adapted to be operated by said receptacle, the shaft I0, and a merchandise-ejecting device having stops I3 mounted on said shaft and adapted to be engaged by said escapenient, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4i. In an automatic vending apparatus, the combination, with the casing having a coinslot, of a tilting coni-receptacle, a inerchan disechute, a merchandise-ejector having luted disks, and stops I3, arranged at thelower end of said chute, and an escapement connected to and operated by sai d receptacle and adapted to engage said stops, as set forth.

5. In an automatic vending apparatus, the combination of a coin-receptacle, an escapement attached to and operated by said receptacle, a chute for containing the merchandise, an ejector arranged inV said chute under the merchandise and adapted to be operated by the weight of the latter, and said ejectorhaving stops adapted to be engaged by said escapement, substantially as set forth.

l. In an automatic vending apparaius, the combination of the tilt-in g coin-receptacle, an escapeinent attached to and operated by said receiitaclc, a vertical chute for containing the merchandise, a shaft, I'luted disks on said shaft projecting into the lower part of said chute and adapted to be revolved by the weight of said merchandise, and stops on said shaft adapted to be engaged by said escapement, substantially as set forth.

7. In an automatic vending apparatus, the combination, with the coin-feeding passage and the shaft (i, of a tilting coin-receptacle mounted upon said shaft, a merchandisechute, a merchandise-ejecting device consisting of tinted disks having points projecting' into said chute, adapted to support the articles of merchandise between them, stops for locking said disks against rotation, and an escapement on shaft (i for releasing said stops, substantially as set forth.

8. In an automatic vending apparatus, the tilting coin-receptacle consisting of a flanged wheel, 5, mounted on shaft (3 and having pins S 8, in combination with a fixed stop, 9, substantially as set forth.

9. In an automatic vending apparatus, the tilting coin-receptacle consisting of lianged wheel 5, having pins S 8 and weight 7, in combination with a fixed stop, i), substantiall y as set forth.

IO. The combination, with` the merchandise-feeding chute 22 and coin-feeding tube 4, of an agitator, 20, )rojecting into the inerchandise-chute, and the lever 14, having operating-connection with said agitator at one end and projecting into the coin-feeding tube at the other end, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Il. The combination, with the merchandise-feeding chute 22 and coin-feeding tube 4f, of a pivoted agitator, 20, projecting into the merchandise-chnte and connected with wing 19, having slot 1S, and a pivot-ed lever, 14, having a pin entering said slot and itself entering the coin-feed tube at its other end, substantially as set forth.

JAMES MORRIS OKELLY.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE BELL, WM. HENRY GARDINER. 

